wow, i don't know where to start. maybe first thingto say is that the trip turned out competely different as we expected it. this was mostly because global warming did its part in northern russia as well, exactly two days before we hit town.
(living la vida loca in st.petersburg)
after an easy travel via st. petersburg (oh, what a night!), we finally reached the small town of kirovsk, about 200ksouth of murmansk (which was the main harbour of the sovjet polar fleet back in the cold war). kirovsk is a pretty ugly industrial style town, built as a residence for apatite miners (a mineral used for fertilizers). also, it is now famous for having the highest dogpoop-per-cubic-meter-snow ratio in the whole world. no kidding, i guess we dug out trillions of bombs during the whole week.
(best item of the trip: the banshee bungee)
the original plan was a 'bit' more freeridish, as the mountain ranges round kirovsk have some sick and yet easy to access terrain to offer. but mother nature had planned differently, so we were forced to deal with the spring-like slush (and poop not to forget).
besides urban shooting, we had a nice trip to a geostation, about 30k in the backcountry, where we were able to build at least one booter (by moving about 40 tons of slush). really nice experience though. super remote place with a very chilled landlord and two lovely dogs. a freaking hot sauna after dinner plus ice cold water in the nearby river combined with lots of vodka and 'baltika' gave me the rest to oversleep the polar lights in the first night.
(the waterfall booter was hella work... 40 tons of snow... the landing was a full size park kicker!)
back in kirovsk, we found some other spots, so every rider in the end went home with some bangers. i kind of start liking trips that turn out this way. where you never know, what you end up with. thanks, crew, you were awesome!
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